Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église paroissiale Saint-Paul
Chambon, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 12 janvier 1931
- Protection dates
- 1931/01/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 2e quart 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1527
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Chambon
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.84209, 0.81240
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097624
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le clocher présente une grosse tour carrée découronnée de son beffroi, flanquée d'une tour carrée d'escalier. La travée sous-jacente date du 12e siècle, vestige d'une église plus ancienne. La façade occidentale est sans doute celle de l'église d'origine, mais remaniée. La porte en arc surbaissé est surmontée d'une frise de rinceaux martelés. La voûte sur croisée d'ogives de la travée sous le clocher a été refaite au 16e siècle. Au sud se trouve la chapelle seigneuriale aux armes des Mallemouche, reliée à une autre chapelle carrée contemporaine. Le choeur se termine par un chevet plat percé d'une baie flamboyante.
English translation
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History
The bell tower presents a large square tower stripped of its belfry, flanked by a square stair tower. The bay beneath dates from the 12th century, a remnant of an older church. The western façade is doubtless that of the original church, but reworked. The relieving arch door is surmounted by a frieze of hammered scrollwork. The rib vault of the bay beneath the bell tower was remade in the 16th century. To the south is found the seigneurial chapel with the arms of the Mallemouche, connected to another contemporary square chapel. The choir ends in a flat chevet pierced by a flamboyant opening.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.